this site is the most cyberpunk i've seen in quite a while. never heard about it. but i'm surprised the sharing isn't done via torrenting but via some commercial shareplace.org website where you pay with paypal - seems a bit dangerous in case they go bust and user data gets confiscated. also, not sure what the appeal is given that you get almost anything on spotify.
Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
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Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing set in motion. I recently found out that all of Russia Today is banned and blocked throughout the EU, and whilst I appreciate it’s pure propaganda, I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot read/watch/hear. It’s entirely against everything…
Please correct me if I'm misreading this, but are you saying bad actors have an inherent right to exercise their bad actions? It's on every individual to defend themselves against whatever harm is being inflicted, and society should stand by because, again, inherent right to be awful should be protected?
>Please correct me if I'm misreading this, but are you saying bad actors have an inherent right to exercise their bad actions? It's on every individual to defend themselves against whatever harm is being inflicted, and society should stand by because, again, inherent right to be awful should be protected?
Not GP, but the short answer is 'yes'. Because it is a slippery slope. I'm not in the EU and I can still reach rt.com. Presumably archive.org isn't banned in the EU, they can likely access such content if they wished to do so.
rt.com absolutely is a propaganda outlet for the Russian government, thinly disguised as a new site. But, IMHO, blocking them sets a terrible precedent as it's always the most reprehensible/unpopular/awful stuff that comes under fire first by the censors.
And if you allow that, what happens when those with power deem your expression to be unacceptable?
What's more, freedom of expression doesn't mean bad people can spew evil lies and we just have to suck it up. Rather, it means that we should have a robust debate and discussion, not because the liars/hate peddlers/etc. are right, but because defeating such garbage requires actually putting in the effort to rebuke and debunk it.
As Justice Brandeis put it[0], much more eloquently than I did, nearly 100 years ago:
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to
avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more
speech, not enforced silence.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#83Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites. But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech c…
Why would to want my applications to use what my operating system does? I control both, but typically I have more control over the OS, and importantly it’s a single location to configure.
You always have more control over the browser than the OS. Every major browser already does this with DoH support.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#84Firefox should natively support OpenNIC and other alternative DNS providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root This will help Mozilla gain marketshare by being the goto browser for anyone wanting to access non-mainstream sites. But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech c…
>But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech company even permit firefox in their IT policy for these and other reasons anyways. Perhaps I'm missing your point, but Firefox does (and I use it in my own AD forest) provide Group Policy[0] management support. [0] https://support.mozilla.org/e…
Firefox requires special config but Chrome uses a lot of the same settings/policies set for IE and now Edge. But this isn't my area, mostly repeating what I've been told.it also lacks the equivalent of chrome enterprise telemetry/management. But pleae correct me if I am wrong there.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> people should have the skill of critically assessing the information they see, not trusting it by default, and knowing how to verify it Unfortunately, in America and I imagine abroad, those skills have been actively eroded so as to favor of consumerism. Moreover, the tools to pull one over on your fellow man have gotten more and more sophisticated such that you cannot trust recorded voices to be real, you cannot tr…
Not to mention health conditions that prohibit people from sharing the mental capacity of people on here. Or let's get specific. My 96yo great aunt with Alzheimer's who has been repeatedly preyed upon. I'm kind of shocked and disappointed to see these attitudes amongst my colleagues. I thought we cared about each other.
There will always be lies out there. Sometimes the information is subjective to whomever is reading it. It's on the individual to determine first what he would like to read, and second, if it's true or false.
I care that everyone has a choice and blocking information has no place in a free society.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it was veeeeeeeeery slow to me. As someone in East Asia, you are lucky if you can load a hidden service under 10 seconds. First we should briefly talk about how hidden services work. You have a very long address encoding the portions of a HS public key, which is stored in a special directory (HSDir), and due to the P2P nature of Tor, that basically becomes a DHT/Torrent Tracker which draws parallel to a DNS s…
>Then you initiate a rendezvous request in HSDir to request a contact with the hidden service. >The hidden service noticed the HSDir updated, then arranges a Tor circuit (of arbitrary length) and then write back to HSDir to tell the requesters to contact via that new circuit which this information will ultimately be signed with the hidden service's private key as a proof of identity so MITM is impossible (like bootle…
ah, looks like we got a Tor expert here. I realize I flipped the rendezvous relationship. Well, I got into Tor 5 years ago as a freshmen trying to replicate Tor in Rust, and I got to say my details are murky now.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#87Isn't everything on YouTube for free? Then downloading is as simple as any software that extracts audio tracks from a YT video.
Youtube serves the audio and video separately; yt-dlp (the successor to youtube-dl) can download only the audio part, so there isn't any extraction necessary. Honestly, I don't understand "piracy" much anymore -- almost everything folks want is legally available on a streaming service for cheap or no-charge. If something has been censored or banned (or the owner refuses to sell it anymore), then that's a different st…
Do streaming services provide 5.1 surround sound mixes? As someone who listens to a lot of classical music -- often with a spatial element where players are dispersed in the hall -- that keeps me buying physical media (SACDs etc.), or occasionally resorting to torrents when someobe could rip the SACD image.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#88I don’t know this case or the site, I’m only commenting on this because, shouldn’t we be very concerned that anything can be silenced, globally, online? Where does it stop if we do it? Who gets the say? Who watches them? You see what I’m getting at? Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing s…
> Google started self censoring “Russian propaganda” and everyone was so distracted with the war itself that nobody seemed to take notice of what gears that type of thing set in motion. I recently found out that all of Russia Today is banned and blocked throughout the EU, and whilst I appreciate it’s pure propaganda, I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot read/watch/hear. It’s entirely against everything…
Sadly the power hungry governments and corporations are getting worse, attempting to dictate what is approved speech. Sometimes they even label things not a lie, but "misinformation" because it's not what they would like you to know. I too find it deeply disturbing.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
it’s entertaining to watch Sony throw these tantrums after one of their prime complaints with the Activision + Microsoft merger was how it might give Microsoft exclusivity for CoD while forgetting how much they love exclusivity for Playstation titles.
The problem is Microsoft has leverage in other areas. I understand Sony's nervousness.
Microsoft is the only company allowing piracy and it has done nothing but good for them ever since they implemented that strategy in 1995.
They compute how much the piracy costs them and then turn around and bill it to the big clients such as the Fortune 500 companies which are forced to get original licenses for Windows and Office.
Re: Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to be a free speech absolutist, but now I believe phylosophical principles exist in service of humanity, not the other way around. If you consider that the goal of russian propaganda is to help Russia succeed in genocide of a 40 million nation, I think it should be fairly easy to handle some censorship, at least until genocide is stopped.
What philosophical principle justifies censorship, which is just propaganda through ommision? How can someone decide for themselves that they agree something is bad, if they aren't allowed to see it, or even know it exists? I don't think there is any philosophical principle that resloves to "and therefor we should commit ignorance"
It can certainly be justified under a utilitarian framework…